Job Description:

Job Posting Title

Professional Land Surveyor

Agency

345 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Supervisory Organization

Project Engineering

Job Posting End Date (Continuous if Blank)

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.

Estimated Appointment End Date (Continuous if Blank)

Full/Part-Time

Full time

Job Type

Regular

Compensation

$83,600.00 Annual Salary

Job Description

Basic Purpose

Positions in this job are responsible for performing administrative and managerial professional land surveying work.

Typical Functions

• Performs a variety of professional surveying tasks of an administrative, professional and scientific nature in coordinating, organizing and supervising operations of a division on a statewide basis.


• Represents the department in contacts with the general public and public officials, answering questions and resolving complaints or disputes concerning land boundaries or construction limits.


• Manages the activities of professional land surveyors performing legal land surveys of real property owned or acquired for public use.


• Acts as an expert witness in real property condemnation suits and other legal matters.


• Manages the survey operations involved in highway, rail, waterway and airport transportation facilities.


• Prepares legal land descriptions for the acquisition of real property.


• Research and design alignments or alternate alignments of proposed highways, bridges, easements, or rights of way.


• Review, amend and/or correct parcel descriptions to ensure they do not encroach upon, gap or overlap adjoined parcels.


• Defend, investigate or bear witness to the property corners and/or monuments established by the Department or the National Geological Survey and maintain the High Accuracy Reference Network (HARN) within the boundaries of the state.


• Construct, document and maintain the state’s Global Position System (GPS) network and increase the number of GPS monuments along all national highway systems within the state for planning, design and construction control purposes.

Level Descriptor

At this level incumbents perform managerial and professional land surveying and/or photogrammetric work as assistant to the division director. Incumbents in this position will assume responsibility of the division in the absence of the division director.

Education and Experience

Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of registration as a Land Surveyor with the Oklahoma State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors and two years of professional surveying experience in a supervisory capacity subsequent to registration.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Competencies

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities required at this level include knowledge of surveying and engineering practices and principles; of administrative and managerial practices and principles; of the principles of effective supervision and of the effects of engineering projects on the economy and environment. Ability is required to establish and maintain professional working relationships with others; to interact effectively with the public; to interpret research data and scientific geodetic data; and to develop, plan and control a budget.

Equal Opportunity Employment

The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of genetic information, race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.

Current State of Oklahoma employees must apply for open positions through their Workday account. Go to Careers app on WD home screen>Click on 'Find Jobs-Internal State of Oklahoma'.

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